Netanyahu Hastens to Meet Trump Over Scope of Iran Diplomacy
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu during a news conference in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Sept. 29, 2025.
Photographer: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Washington on Wednesday to discuss US-Iran diplomacy with President Donald Trump, whose focus on Tehran’s nuclear program falls short of his ally’s call for more sweeping measures.
The indirect US-Iran negotiations, launched in Oman, followed Trump’s buildup of US forces in the Persian Gulf in response to Tehran’s deadly crackdown against domestic protests. The White House’s initial talk of potentially regime-destabilizing punitive action in solidarity with the Iranian dissidents has been pared back to the long-running nuclear topic.